Layton Lachman, choreographer and dancer, working in Berlin and San Francisco/Oakland. They create performances rooted in somatics, channeling these experiential practices into immersive, sensorially complex worlds. Layton is committed to dance practice centered on group study, expanding ‘the commons’, and collective authorship — with the understanding that we are always collaborating with those who come before, after, and with us. Receiving a BFA in choreography/ Ohio University, Layton moved to San Francisco collaborated with Abby Crain, Mara Poliak, Margit Galanter, Kathleen Hermesdorf, Sara Shelton Mann, and SALTA, among others. For the past four years Layton has been working with T.E.N.T. collective, creating a research studio, sprawling events, parties, and epic shows in Berlin, Dresden, Stockholm and vacant farm lands. 2019, Layton finished their teacher training in Open Source Forms -- Stephanie Skura’s pedagogical vision which expands upon Skinner Releasing Technique. Layton draws from Open Source Forms in their teaching, proposing physical experiments that are imagistic, improvisational and play with transformation through embodiment.